Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
一看就是冲击奥斯卡最佳动画/最佳原创音乐的架势，非常适合琴童家长看，走路晒太阳看星星也可以是灵魂的意义所在
BBC看了新剧本说资金不足决定退出的故事真是笑死我了……
动画表现演奏音乐这样的复杂动作仍然力有不逮，显出其非人性。Animate，是让模型动起来。最好的3D动画电影仍然是关于玩具，关于机器人，关于怪物的。
演出效果不错，但故事是毒鸡汤。黑人小哥本来就很有钢琴才能，之前演出失败是编剧硬设的。叛逆小妹也没有特别到四千年始终投胎失败。所以这片子最大亮点是对纽约的爱…然而到最后叛逆小妹好像投胎去了西藏。
全程都在与我对话……暴击，哭的快窒息了
我们从小被成功学教育要赢，要竞争，要升职加薪走向人生巅峰，却没有失败学教我们，如何面对输，如何面对人生的不如意。这部电影就是一部失败学，或者说是平凡学，教失意者者如何与失意人生自洽，教普通人如何与普通生活和解。年少时总想着给人生找点儿意义，人到中年，以及这不寻常的2020年，让我懂得，好好活着，与生活发生连接，这本生就是意义。
带着很高的期望去，反而觉得……嗯，一般。怎么说，主角一开始是loser相，过程光怪陆离，然后用复杂的逻辑讲了道理，后来主角学会了在宇宙中心做自己，最后上了高级动人的价值。就很，奇葩说？
那些可以深刻在记忆中的生命碎片，就是你人生的全部意义啊！不是每个人都能成为伟人，但普通的一生仍弥足珍贵。生而为人，莫留遗憾。这是一部属于普通人、属于你我的励志片。仍然保持了适度的有趣，以及戳心式的感动。虽然没有《头脑特工队》那么戳我，但彼特·道格特仍然非常强。尤其是，太擅长这种走心的故事了。虽然总是有点鸡汤，但还是很好看，厉害。
好好好，那个年代的中国动画片普遍带有对于现实生活的讽刺意味，但是现在这份讽刺已经全变成了幼稚
当然整部电影还是非常轻松、愉悦的。
“灵魂是压不死的，只有生活才可以”。
前幾天看完這部電影時,說實話我並沒有太大感受,這幾天一直在思考這部電影帶給了我什麼?一個人在追求夢想的路上,會不會忽略了生活帶給你的浪漫?當你達到自己的理想目標時,真的會覺得就只是這樣了嗎?這種喜悅來去都很快~這並沒有什麼特別的地方.而這些年來自己的人生都用在追求理想的道路上,最美好的事全都忽略掉了, 這就是城市病吧,不進步就會焦慮,沒人享受生活,都在忙著追求物質生活.為了理想,沒有思想,過濾掉了那些美好的事,到最後才發現,這也許不是你想要的,一個人生來,並不知道自己真的想要的是什麼,所有你想要的東西,都是外界引導你去追求的.在這個信息炸裂的時代,減少自己的慾望,努力做到工作生活雙贏,儘量多的和你愛的人去享受生活,你會變得快樂很多.————來自本文盲的見解.
略微无聊，感觉很突然，也能够看出点意义，但是也是自己从只字片语中理解出来的，整个剧情就让人感觉有点莫名其妙……
迪士尼法务——性转换黑鬼，逐梦演艺圈，还有一只猫，提名傲死卡，谁敢不投票！
这碗虚无的美式鸡汤真的喝不下去…人生有轻松快乐，但大部分时间确实很难。只倚在门口看风景，不把自己变牛逼的人生没有意义。
今天太奇怪了，看了期待中毫无新意的《神奇女侠1984》，却发现编剧找到了一个如此符合当今问题的视角。然后看了如此期待的《soul》，完全就是个空洞到令人发指的心灵鸡汤，而且编剧精巧的塑造和迎合了当今虚无主义者的自恋，和他们自己问题的美学化，问题解法的浪漫主义，当然，所有这一切不会对他们有任何的帮助。他们也不会从生活中的一个细节发现spark，这就是个神话。
更巧的是电影主角也叫Joey，也贼喜欢音乐，前期和后期对生活的态度和感悟也都跟我一毛一样，要不要这么巧，完全像是在拍我本人好吗！！！
寓意很好，画风也很舒服，但是8.9这个分值明显是低于我的预期了。
四两拨千斤的影片，还没反应过来故事就结束了，皮克斯还是拿回了属于自己的剧本。
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